Sentence examples similar to lowering the hammer from inspiring English sources

Eventually Khan lowers the hammer, defeated.

"We rely on these types of enforcement actions to really lower the hammer," said Adam Szubin, director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department.

X found giving F's to be excruciating — "I am the man who has to lower the hammer," he lamented — in part because he identified with his older students, who seemed to have lost their way in their careers much as X himself had.

But Bob doesn't lower the hammer.

But after Pham shared his experience via his personal blog, Comcast decided to lower the hammer.

Don't attempt to lower the hammer manually.

The auctioneer spent a fruitless and slightly uncomfortable forty seconds attempting to persuade someone to bid against Brad, before lowering his hammer.

Finally, the finished product is refined using the tongkol process, tuning the gongs either by hammering the boss from the inside to slightly raise its pitch, or by hammering the boss from the outside to lower the pitch.

Cut a shape of plywood or other material to hang below the hammer, or lower disk, and tie it on the end of your three strings.

On Christmas Day 1991, the flag bearing the hammer and sickle was lowered from the Kremlin, replaced by the red, white and blue Russian tricolor.

The hammer and sickle flag was lowered from the Kremlin without fanfare.